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MHSL82
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This thread is for my recaps of the games. I will try to do every game.
BOX OUT, RUDY!!! You didn't need the rebound.
MHSL82: I heard on the radio that Gobert was pretty confident that the team with turn it around (Sacramento and Memphis game did not go well). He said that last year right before we went on our big run. He called out a player without naming names for playing for a contract instead of for the team two years ago. So I think he's pretty honest. He will say if there's a problem.
So you're saying you heard Gobert on the radio after the game, and he sounded confident?
Is there a time when you heard a player after a game, and he didn't sound confident that they would turn it around?
What does this mean?
He didn't need the rebound, but you want him to box out?
Is this so someone else can get the rebound instead of Rudy himself?
I have heard people be confident but never be honest about locker room issues. I'm saying that I have heard him be negative before and not just this time mentioned earlier about Gordon Hayward. There have been other times where he has said things publicly in a non-offending way. So I trust him. It doesn't mean that all problems will be fixed because he says so, but it means a little bit more to me.
He didn't need the rebound. He just needed to keep Jerebko from tipping the ball back in. There was no time for anything beyond a tip in from Jerebko. We were winning so we didn't need the rebound and then be fouled or to the call time out. When Durant missed the shot, we just needed no more shots to be taken.
I don't even know if we had a foul to give. Theoretically, we could have fouled Jerebko trying to box out. Fouling him even if we were in the penalty or had too many fouls under two minutes, would have been better because he could've missed a free-throw. Anything but the tip-in would've been better or the same (making both FTs).
And this is NOT in hindsight. It's common basketball knowledge. He could have missed the tip-in, but the good play is always to box out. Every single time, you don't need the rebound with that time left and the lead. Every single time boxing out would've been better if you don't foul. And sometimes if you foul, it could be no worse than two free throws made. One could say a tip-in and a free-throw, but losing by one or losing by two is the same thing.
What did Rudy do instead? What was the problem with what he did? I don't know what happened in the game.
Since you have so many recent players on your list, maybe the Jazz aren't breaking up with the players as cordially as other organizations? And those players are then feeling resented?